Civic engagement

Disclaimer: In accordance with University of Wisconsin System policy passed December 11, 2015, please note that my statements reflect my opinion alone and not that of my employer, the University of Wisconsin System.

Selected interviews

With Frederica Freyberg, “Chad Alan Goldberg on populist politics and Jan. 6’s legacy,” Here & Now, Wisconsin Public Television, January 10, 2025

UW Professor on rise in antisemitism,” interview on WISC-TV (CBS) Channel 3 News. The interview aired on November 20, 2023, two days after a neo-Nazi march on the Wisconsin State Capitol.

With Rob Ferrett, “White House Releases First-Ever National Strategy to Fight Antisemitism,” Central Time, Wisconsin Public Radio, June 2, 2023

With Aditi Debnath, “The Chronic Scourge of Casual Antisemitism in a Divisive Era,” Here & Now, Wisconsin Public Television, February 24, 2023

With Frederica Freyberg, “UW Professor Explains Reason Behind No-Confidence Resolution,Here & Now, Wisconsin Public Television, May 6, 2016

Selected mentions

Reuters, “Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons will embolden extremist groups, says experts,” January 22, 2025.

Kimberly Wethal, “UW System’s Deal with Republicans OKs Pay Raises and $740 Million in Projects,” Wisconsin State Journal, December 9, 2023

Kimberly Wethal, “‘This is a Shared Fight’: Faculty, Staff across UW System Protest UW-Oshkosh’s Layoff Plans,” Wisconsin State Journal, October 4, 2023

Aditi Debnath, “The Chronic Scourge of Casual Antisemitism in a Divisive Era,” PBS Wisconsin, February 23, 2023

Aditi Debnath, “Shining a Light on the Growing Problem of Antisemitism in Wisconsin,” PBS Wisconsin, December 20, 2022

Karin Fischer, “A Playbook for Knocking Down Higher Ed,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 18, 2022

Karin Fischer, “The Return of College as a Common Good,” Chronicle of Higher Education, October 3, 2022

Michelle Goldberg, “Antisemitism Increased Under Trump. Then It Got Even Worse,” New York Times, April 29, 2022

Emma Pettit, “How One Professor Will Turn Wisconsin’s Higher-Ed Philosophy Into a Seminar,” Chronicle of Higher Education, August 24, 2016

Pat Schneider, “New UW-Madison Course Aims to Foster Public Discussion of Wisconsin Idea, UW Influence on State,” The Capital Times, August 22, 2016

Opinion articles

The Establishment and Its Trumpist Discontents,” The American Prospect, September 24, 2021

UW Employees Need a Raise — and More,” Wisconsin State Journal, June 25, 2017

Why I Wrote the No-Confidence Resolution at UW-Madison,” Wisconsin State Journal, May 11, 2016

Search for Truth in Peril on UW System Campuses” (with Elena Levy-Navarro, James Oberly, and Jon Shelton), Wisconsin State Journal, March 4, 2016

Regents Can’t Have It Both Ways,” Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, December 29, 2015

University of Wisconsin System Needs Accountability for Everyone” (with Sara Goldrick-Rab), Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel, March 16, 2015

The Boycott Isn’t Leftist,” Inside Higher Ed, January 7, 2014

There’s No Academic Freedom without Institutional Means,” Chronicle of Higher Education, January 2, 2014

Lessons of the Wisconsin Uprising,” Deliberately Considered, June 8, 2012

Jewish Community Should Back Collective Bargaining Rights,” Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle, June 1, 2012

Scott’s Education Agenda Hurts State,” Sarasota Herald-Tribune, October 15, 2011

Workers’ Rights and Democracy in Madison,” Deliberately Considered, February 20, 2011

Secret Ballot Is a Red Herring” (on labor law reform), The Capital Times, May 29, 2009

Unions Fight for the Future of Public Education—in Israel as well as Wisconsin,” The Professional, AFT-Wisconsin, AFL-CIO, April 2008